Educational Science

Extreme Mobile: Fords to Feature Voice-Controlled Internet

Later this year, Ford automobiles will let you access the Internet and take your digital life on the road. Safety experts worry, however, that all the distractions could be dangerous. An enhancement of the company's popular voice-activated in-car communications system, Ford's second-generation SYNC will become the operating system that manages...

How Google's Nexus One Phone Compares

Google launched its first branded phone today available in both an unlocked version that can be used with multiple carriers and as a subsidized phone tied to a two-year contract with T-Mobile. In a well crafted publicity strategy, the Nexus One captured the attention of the media and the blogosphere...

Watching a curvaceous woman can feel like a reward in the brain of men, much as drinking alcohol or taking drugs might, research now reveals. These new findings might help explain the preoccupation men can have toward pornography, scientists added. Shapely hips in women are linked with fertility and overall...

Cell Phone Radiation Might Improve Memory

Amid ongoing claims that long-term cell phone radiation may lead to brain tumors comes a new study suggesting the radio waves may protect and even reverse Alzheimer's disease, at least in mice. And the radiation gave mice without Alzheimer's a boost in brain activity. It surprised us to find that...

Half of Depressed Americans Get No Treatment

About half of Americans with major depression do not receive treatment for the condition, and in many cases the therapies are not consistent with the standard of care, according to a new study. The study also showed that ethnicity and race were important factors in determining who received treatment, with...

Energy-Saving Tips

{{adsense|premier|right}} Put Your Computer to Sleep March 29, 2010: Learn to love your computer's power management tools, which include automatically turning off the monitor, turning off the hard drives, and putting the entire system into sleep or hibernate mode (preferably after half an hour of inactivity). Microsoft says that hibernate...

As Elvis Turns 75, Celebrity Worship Alive and Well

If Elvis were alive, he'd be 75 on Friday. While his musical style and gyrations may have been unique, Elvis Presley's stardom and swooning fans can be explained by simple psychology, trends in technology and pop culture, and a look at our ancestors, all of which reveals why celebrity worship...

3 Best Standard-Definition Camcorders with Hard Drives

The marriage of hard drives and camcorders means the days of hauling around blank tapes or discs to record your family vacations are long gone. Here are three of the best in the standard-definition category, as rated by TechNewsDaily’s sister site, TopTenReviews: No. 1: Panasonic SDR-H200 The top standard-definition camcorder...

Image Gallery: Small Sea Monsters

Glyceridae (Image credit: NOAA - Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary)Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, about 17 miles off Sapelo Island, Georgia, is home to a variety of strange creatures. The Glyceridae, or bloodworms, are ferocious epi- and infaunal polychaetes that prey upon small invertebrates. They are errant burrowers that build...

Ancient Human Ancestors Faced Fearsome Horned Crocodile

A newfound horned crocodile may have been the largest predator encountered by our ancestors in Africa, researchers now suggest. Scientists have even found bones from members of the human lineage bearing tooth marks from this reptile, whose scientific name, Crocodylus anthropophagus, means man-eating crocodile. This predator, which lived some 1.84...